A recent blog post at Edutopia talks about helping students develop an appreciation of math.
From the post ...
“I hate Math. I have never been good at it. And tell me, when am I honestly ever going to use this again?”
I am having the same conversation in my office with yet another student failing out of math class. I am not a math teacher. I am an advisor, but I know this conversation all too well. The math teachers and I work closely to intervene when students drop below passing and this is how the conversation always starts with my students.
The truth is they don’t hate math, they hate struggling and not succeeding in math. From all outward appearances they like all of the functions of math. My students love the technology that math has afforded them. They have plans to go off into the world and do great things. Many of them are already applying math to their real world problems. Most of my students are working, driving to school, and calculating the cost of college. My brain has struggled to understand how students could be so steadfast in their hatred for a tool that could help them navigate the chaos of life.
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